D'Antoni: 'We're going to bust them'

[FromWayDowntown]

SAS has only been good as a franchise since they drafted Tim Duncan. They sucked before he got there and they will suck after he leaves.

LAL OTOH has pretty much won in every decade with all sorts of different teams. They will always be a powerhouse in the NBA much like the Yankees and Patriots are in their respective sports. Unless the Spurs hit the jackpot again and land another Duncan they will probably fade back into obscurity. As it stands now they can't even sell out playoff games.

That's not really true, although the fact that fans perceive things that way doesn't seem to account for facts.

Since the merger, the Spurs have the 2nd best winning percentage in the association and are tied with LA for the most division les in that time period. More significantly, the Spurs are also in the top 5, since the merger, in playoff wins, playoff series wins, and playoff winning percentage.

The Spurs didn't reach the pinnacle until 1999, obviously, but they've played in conference finals in 1979, 1982, 1983, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007. The 9 appearances at that level have been topped, since the merger, only by the Lakers and Pistons (the Celtics also have 9).

I'm not, by any means, comparing the Spurs' history to that of the Lakers, but it's not as if the Spurs have suddenly found some ability to compete that never existed before 1997.

[FromWayDowntown]

You know exactly what I meant azzhole... we have won three out of four les in this decade... the Spurs franchise dont even compare to the Lakers. There are only two great franchises in the history of the sport, and thats Lakers and Celtics... Spurs are not even on the map. We will send you new comers packing this year and you guys can go back to picking corn or whatever they do in Texas for fun besides fuccing goats.

I'm sorry -- you said you "went to the championship 4 straight years this decade." I just questioned your ability to count; I have no idea how the gap for 2002 and 2004 makes those appearances "consecutive." And it seemed particularly odd to make that claim on a Spurs' board, since the Spurs are the group that made sure it wasn't 4 consecutive years.

What's with the hostility towards the Spurs anyway? It's not as if any reasonable poster here is trying to compare the Spurs' history to the Lakers'. Not all franchises are blessed with good fortune that the Lakers have enjoyed in landing great players and not all franchises have the market advantages that exist in LA. We can enjoy the second-tier historical success of our franchise without diminishing the accomplishments of yours -- unless you're really insecure about LA's place in the basketball world or something, which would be completely stupid.

[Ronaldo McDonald]

SAS has only been good as a franchise since they drafted Tim Duncan. They sucked before he got there and they will suck after he leaves.

Yea, ok.

[Ronaldo McDonald]

WayDownTown, these posters aren't worth the trouble, man. Their whole purpose on this forum is to stir us all up by talking about the Spurs.

[FromWayDowntown]

It's funny to say that the Patriots are some sort of enduring powerhouse franchise in football, given that they hadn't won a le before January of 2002. Granted, they have appeared in 6 Super Bowls since 1986, but they've also had some ridiculously bad years along the way, including a stretch of 26 years with only 6 playoff appearances.

Pretty tough to argue that the Patriots have some sort of longer legacy as a great franchise than the Spurs do.

[Warlord23]

KFC and lakaluva, why don't you get your sucking got asses to the nearest Laker forum. Nobody on this forum gives a crap about your franchise. Go join the Kobe circle jerk on LG.

[DazedAndConfused]

Calm down guys, we're just ing around with you with this les talk. It's all in fun.

[FromWayDowntown]

The post by the other guy with all his statistics are irrelevent. Lakers dont even count division les or WCT's, or how many times we got beat in the Western Conference Championship game. I am actually pulling or the Spurs just to get the rival going again.

Yeah, that was me, too.